Modi gave these directions during a meeting to review the preparedness of the Gaganyaan mission and the first demonstration flight of the crew escape system test vehicle scheduled for October 21.
The boards of three PSU banks - Bank of Baroda, Oriental Bank of Commerce and Andhra Bank met in deference to the Finance Ministry's insistence, but quite unexpectedly they did not roll back the rate hikes announced last week.
Manoj Tiwary, who made a century against the West Indies in Chennai in 2011, was dropped for the next 14 matches under Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Jawan is disproportionately extolled for making political comments, but it is a small film like Bhagwan Bharose that usually sticks its neck out, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Even as the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has suggested taking the services of aMap, an online TV ratings measurement firm for mapping rural homes in terms of gauging the benefits of Doordarshan to rural viewers, TAM Media, the leading TV audience measurement agency, today said that it was the first agency to have submitted a similar proposal about two years ago but was not getting a fair hearing from the government.
Yeh Meri Family is rescued by the actors. All of them have delivered on the warmth and crankiness of a close-knit family without putting on any hum saath saath hain fakery, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Chairman of Hockey India League (HIL) Narendra Batra speaks about the promising start of the league and if this is a new dawn for Indian hockey.
A morning show host of a television channel has invited the wrath of hundreds of Pakistanis for trying to drill moral sense into young couples dating in Karachi's parks.
The media and entertainment industry in 2007 grew by an estimated 17 per cent over the previous year to touch Rs 51,300 crore (Rs 513 billion), according to a recent Ficci-PwC 2008 report. However, this is 6 percentage points lower than the 23 per cent growth registered in 2006. All the major segments within the M&E industry, comprising TV, film and print, will see a year-on-year fall in their growth rates going by the report estimates for 2007.
The private demand is still not picking up and the funds under market stabilisation scheme are also maturing.
Rinku is impressed with the way this young Indian side has performed in Ireland, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series.
Swift, who last weekend won the Grammy Award for album of the year for a record fourth time, has attended 12 Chiefs games since she began dating Kelce last year, boosting already sky-high NFL ratings.
The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday said banks' response to monetary actions in terms of cutting interest rates have been mute and there is room for further softening of interest rates.
A piece of slightly negative news can cause a serious setback, warns Debashis Basu.
An ET NOW advertisement thanked viewers for making it the Number 1; its version had 55 per cent market share, while CNBC had 42 per cent.
The Competition Commission of India, the country's fair trade watchdog, which turned functional less than a year ago, busy these days.
Dish TV and Tata Sky, the country's two direct-to-home (DTH) companies, are expected to post losses in excess of Rs 1,400 crore for 2007-08 in their quest to expand the market by offering set-top boxes at subsidised rates. The companies have over five million subscriber homes across the country collectively.
We have to walk a very fine line between our desire to mobilise more and more taxes or having higher percentage of taxes, he says
All policy planners want low interest rate, says Jaitley
Takahide Kiuchi, senior economist with Nomura Securities does not expect the Bank of Japan, BoJ to raise rates. As per Kiuchi, the BOJ is likely to adopt the 'wait and watch' policy.
In an interim order on Monday, the Supreme Court directed that Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators may charge no more than 42 per cent of the rates paid by cable operators for TV channels.
Markram ton and spin twins see South Africa to ODI win over Australia
Balika Vadhu loses its number one position due to IPL and Bidaai.
Hospitality majors, including Le Meridien and Pride Hotel, are opposing pay channels such as Star and Zee for raising rates for the second time in six months, pending an earlier court battle between the hotel trade body and private broadcasters.
The revision was announced before Indian markets opened on Thursday.
Mother's Day reminded me of how my mom learned to cook Indian food.
Former Sri Lanka cricketer and current Rajasthan Royals coach and Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara expressed happiness on wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel earning the India call-up for the Test series against England at home, saying that the player understands pressure well and has a fine work ethic.
If you thought you had seen the high points in the trailer, the entire film is simply fire, applauds Joginder Tuteja.
The country's largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, today said credit offtake will pick from July putting pressure on lending rates.
'...you start running after the star.' 'If the star says yes to the film, the ecosystem supports it.' 'The biggest cog in the wheel of the ecosystem is the audience and we forget that.'
All India Rank achieves a fine balance of authenticity and sensitivity in the fine portrayals of its young actors and old.
For the first time in his political career, he failed to carry his party to even a working majority -- and again, for the first time in his career, he finds himself in a situation where he cannot rule by dictatorial fiat, points out Prem Panicker.
The inter-meeting rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) indicates a shift in its monetary policy stance, the finance ministry's chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian said on Thursday.
Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG)-owned BIG TV is rolling out a new Rs 30-crore advertising campaign to popularise its soon-to-be-launched interactive services. The company is also reducing rates for certain subscription packages by Rs 500.
Issues related to the conditional access system continues to remain hazy even as September 1 -- the proposed date of its roll out
'This could come second to Adelaide. Adelaide remains very special to me'
While Star was expecting around Rs 1,800 crore as ad revenues from the television and digital media, it may end up getting Rs 1,500-1,600 crore now, after factoring in the washouts and India not being able to reach the final.
